Papers ​submitted to this track are ideally 2-3 pages long and describe late-breaking developments. This track is meant to carry on the tradition of the former Snowbird Learning Workshop. These papers are non-archival workshop papers, and therefore may be published elsewhere.

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Extended abstracts ​submitted to this track are ideally 2-3 pages long and describe late-breaking developments. This track is meant to carry on the tradition of the former Snowbird Learning Workshop. These papers are non-archival workshop papers, and therefore may be published elsewhere.

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If one wants to submit a more extensive paper to the workshop track, the 6-9 page guideline for conference papers should be followed.

We strongly recommend that researchers in computer vision who wish to make workshop submissions adhere closely to the recommended paper length to avoid issues with [[http://​www.pamitc.org/​cvpr15/​author_guidelines.php|CVPR'​s policy on dual submissions]].

We strongly recommend that researchers in computer vision who wish to make workshop submissions adhere closely to the recommended paper length to avoid issues with [[http://​www.pamitc.org/​cvpr15/​author_guidelines.php|CVPR'​s policy on dual submissions]].

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Note that submitted conference track papers that are not accepted to the conference proceedings are automatically considered for the workshop track. ​ Authors whose papers are not accepted to the conference but are accepted to the workshop will be given the option to replace their original manuscript with a briefer extended abstract. ​ This option is provided to address the concerns by computer vision conferences such as CVPR about dual submission of full papers.

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Note that submitted conference track papers that are not accepted to the conference proceedings are automatically considered for the workshop track. ​ Authors whose papers are not accepted to the conference but are accepted to the workshop will be given the option to replace their original manuscript with a briefer extended abstract ​**that has a new arXiv ID**. This option is provided to address the concerns by computer vision conferences such as CVPR about dual submission of full papers.

===== ICLR Submission Instructions =====

===== ICLR Submission Instructions =====

- Download the [[iclr2015:​iclr2015_stylefiles.zip|style files and paper template]] and use within LaTeX to format your paper. Make sure the correct choice between a conference and workshop submission is explicitly specified within your paper, as supported by the style file. **Use of the ICLR 2015 style is mandatory**.

- Download the [[iclr2015:​iclr2015_stylefiles.zip|style files and paper template]] and use within LaTeX to format your paper. Make sure the correct choice between a conference and workshop submission is explicitly specified within your paper, as supported by the style file. **Use of the ICLR 2015 style is mandatory**.

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Please note that you must have a CMT login (free) and must have entered your conflict domains to submit the paper.

Please note that you must have a CMT login (free) and must have entered your conflict domains to submit the paper.

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For more information on paper preparation,​ including style files and the URL for the openreview ICLR2015 website, please see http://​www.iclr.cc/​doku.php?​id=iclr2015:​main

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For more information on paper preparation,​ including style files, please see http://​www.iclr.cc/​doku.php?​id=iclr2015:​main

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When you make your arXiv submission, please be sure to correctly classify your submission into CoRR categories. ​ Typically, you should consider the following categories:​

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* CS.LG: machine learning

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* CS.NE: neural networks

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* CS.CV: computer vision

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* CS.CL: computational linguistics

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Virtually all of the ICLR papers should have both CS.LG and CS.NE as categories and then additional categories depending on the nature of the problem.

**Submission deadline: ​ 11:59 pm PST, December 19, 2014**

**Submission deadline: ​ 11:59 pm PST, December 19, 2014**

==== Notes ====

==== Notes ====

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- Regarding the conference submission'​s 6-9 page limits, these are really meant as guidelines and will not be strictly enforced. For example, figures should not be shrunk to illegible size to fit within the page limit. However, in order to ensure a reasonable workload for our reviewers, papers that go beyond the 9 pages should be formatted to include a 9 page submission and a separate supplementary material submission that will be optionally reviewed. If the paper is selected for the JMLR special topic issue, this supplementary material can be incorporated into the final journal version.

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- Regarding the conference submission'​s 6-9 page limits, these are really meant as guidelines and will not be strictly enforced. For example, figures should not be shrunk to illegible size to fit within the page limit. However, in order to ensure a reasonable workload for our reviewers, papers that go beyond the 9 pages should be formatted to include a 9 page submission and a separate supplementary material submission that will be optionally reviewed. If the paper is selected for the JMLR special topic issue, this supplementary material can be incorporated into the final journal version. We recommend placing the supplementary material in a section of the main paper, after the references, and labeling the section as supplementary.

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- Workshop track submissions should be formatted as a short paper, with introduction,​ problem statement, brief explanation of solution, figure(s) and references. They should not merely ​be abstracts.

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- Workshop track submissions should be formatted as an **extended** abstract, with introduction,​ problem statement, brief explanation of solution, figure(s) and references. ​They may include a link to a longer arXiv paper, if desired.

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- The reviewers will be asked to judge the papers submitted via CMT initially, but once the discussion period begins, they will be asked to work from the most recent version on arXiv.

- Paper revisions will be permitted, and in fact are encouraged, in response to comments from and discussions with the reviewers (see [[iclr2015:​cfp#​an_open_reviewing_paradigm|An Open Reviewing Paradigm]] below).

- Paper revisions will be permitted, and in fact are encouraged, in response to comments from and discussions with the reviewers (see [[iclr2015:​cfp#​an_open_reviewing_paradigm|An Open Reviewing Paradigm]] below).

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- Authors are encouraged to post their papers to arXiv early enough that the paper has an arXiv number and URL by the submission deadline of 19 Dec. 2014. However, if these are not yet available, authors have up to one week after the submission deadline to provide the arXiv number and URL. At submission time, simply provide the title, authors, abstract, and temporary arXiv number indicating that the paper has been submitted to arXiv.

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- Authors are encouraged to post their papers to arXiv early enough that the paper has an arXiv number and URL by the submission deadline of 11:59 pm PST, 19 Dec. 2014. However, if these are not yet available, authors have up to one week after the submission deadline to provide the arXiv number and URL. At submission time, simply provide the title, authors, abstract, and temporary arXiv number indicating that the paper has been submitted to arXiv.

===== An Open Reviewing Paradigm =====

===== An Open Reviewing Paradigm =====

- Submissions to ICLR are posted on arXiv prior to being submitted to the conference.

- Submissions to ICLR are posted on arXiv prior to being submitted to the conference.

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- Authors submit their paper to either the ICLR conference track or workshop track via the the openreview ​ICLR2015 website.

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- Authors submit their paper to either the ICLR conference track or workshop track via the the [[https://​cmt.research.microsoft.com/​ICLR2015/​Protected/​Author/​Default.aspx|CMT ​ICLR2015 website]].

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- After the authors have submitted their papers ​via openreview.net, the ICLR program committee designates anonymous reviewers as usual.

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- After the authors have submitted their papers, the ICLR program committee designates anonymous reviewers as usual.

- The submitted reviews are published without the name of the reviewer, but with an indication that they are the designated reviews.

- The submitted reviews are published without the name of the reviewer, but with an indication that they are the designated reviews.

- Anyone can openly (non-anonymously) write and publish comments on the paper. Anyone can ask the program chairs for permission to become an anonymous designated reviewer (open bidding). The program chairs have ultimate control over the publication of each anonymous review. Open commenters will have to use their real names, linked with their Google Scholar profiles.

- Anyone can openly (non-anonymously) write and publish comments on the paper. Anyone can ask the program chairs for permission to become an anonymous designated reviewer (open bidding). The program chairs have ultimate control over the publication of each anonymous review. Open commenters will have to use their real names, linked with their Google Scholar profiles.

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- The review calendar includes a generous amount of time for discussion between the authors, anonymous reviewers, and open commentators. ​ The goal is to improve the quality of the final submissions.

- The review calendar includes a generous amount of time for discussion between the authors, anonymous reviewers, and open commentators. ​ The goal is to improve the quality of the final submissions.

- The ICLR program committee will consider all submitted papers, comments, and reviews and will decide which papers are to be presented in the conference track, which are to be presented in the workshop track, and which will not appear at ICLR.

- The ICLR program committee will consider all submitted papers, comments, and reviews and will decide which papers are to be presented in the conference track, which are to be presented in the workshop track, and which will not appear at ICLR.

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- Papers that are presented in the workshop track or are not accepted will be considered non-archival,​ and may be submitted elsewhere (modified or not), although the ICLR site will maintain the reviews, the comments, and the links to the arXiv versions.